The second exploitation serfs suffered was corvee labor - a broad term covering not only corvee, but taxes and levies, and rents for land and livestock.

农奴遭受的第二重剥削是乌拉差。乌拉差是一种包括徭役、赋税、地(畜)租在内的含义十分广泛的差税总称。

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In principle such levies are useful if they meet the test for taxes: to raise revenue without harming price signals and enterprise too much.

原则上来说，如果这类税符合税收的一般准则，即能够在不对价格信号和企业造成大的损害的前提下增进价值，那么它们的确是有用的。

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A few other taxes might also be devolved (mostly minor ones, such as air-passenger duty, and explicitly not big earners such as corporation tax or North Sea oil and gas levies).

一些其他税收也可能下放，不过主要都是次要的税收，如飞机旅客税，以及其他显然的非纳税大户，如企业税和北海石油天然气税。

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They may get a second wind because of tactical mistakes the current regime has made in its tax reforms: It raised excise taxes and various VAT levies because it felt obliged to match the revenues that would allegedly be lost by moving to a flat tax.

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Following the original provisions of the Constitution, federal taxes consisted of property levies, excise taxes and tariffs.

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Two incomes in a family today can barely do the job that one did in previous generations: One pays for the family, the other for all the taxes, levies, tolls and fees that go to the government.

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